10 things..

Snippets harvested from the week's news, chopped, sliced and diced for your weekend convenience.

1. A new product is launched every three-and-a-half minutes.

2. The Palestinians have a supreme court.

3. Syriana - the title of George Clooney's latest film - is a term used by Washington think-tanks to describe hypothetical realignment of the Middle East.
Not Haliburtonshire then?

4. Rhubarb, that classic English fruit, was introduced to Britain from Siberia.

5. The "Rhubarb triangle" is an area of West Yorkshire farms bordered by Leeds, Wakefield and Bradford, where rhubarb is grown.
The last two sound like a lot of old rhu..... [Give up Goose]

6. Pooh Bear illustrator EH Shepard hated Pooh bear.

7. Chimpanzees ruin their fingers by walking on their knuckles.

8. It's possible to generate a temperature 133 times greater than the interior of the sun - scientists have produced a gas exceeding 3.6 billion degrees Fahrenheit, although they don't know how they did it.
Six pints of Sussex and a Vindaloo?

9. Hummingbirds are the only creatures, apart from humans, known to have an episodic memory - enabling them to remember where and when they last fed.

10. HSBC, which has announced record UK banking profits of £11.9bn, makes a profit of just £1.05 per week from each of its UK personal customers.
Or the Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation as they prefer not to be known as.

All in more detail at the BBC.